American Dream and Benjamin
Franklin
学校: 云南民族大学
学院: 外国语学院
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American Dream and Benjamin Franklin The so-called American Dream, is a belief that as long as the United States after a hard struggle will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life. That is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards prosperity, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance. This is usually on behalf of the people in the economic success or entrepreneurial spirit.
American Dream---The statue of liberty was for many immigrants the first point of view of United States, It signifies freedom and personal liberty and iconic of the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea held by many in the United States of America that through hard work, courage and determination one could achieve prosperity. These were values held by many early European settlers , and have been passed on to subsequent generations.
In The Declaration of Independence have shown e American Dream thought:“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
In my opinion, Franklin is embodiment American cultural diversity．Benjamin Franklin is one such person, commercially successful, ever concerned and involved with the public good, a great communicator, and a remarkable man of science and technology. Trying to comprehend Benjamin Franklin’s life and legacy is like trying to grab a shadow.Each time one tries to get a fix on the reflection，it darts away and grows even Larger
Benjamin Franklin is the embodiment of American Dream .Benjamin Franklin , who instructed his countrymen as printer, not a priest. He was a humanist; a master of diplomacy; a humanitarian who helped establish hospitals, schools, and libraries. He was a believer in the possibilities of human progress and the comfort of material success; and he was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity, and balance. Franklin seemed to represent the age in his
paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change. He was symbolic even in his success in the printing trade, for the eighteenth century in American was a time of an immense expansion of publishing that fed a growing and increasingly literate colonial population.
In that time, social order is the pursuit of wealthy, and freedom is the natural rights. Franklin seemed to represent the age in his paradoxical faith in both social order and in natural rights, in love of stability and devotion to revolutionary change. He was successful in business, renowned in science, the most modern spirited man of early American’s also severed his nation brilliantly.。